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view of removing the cause of the complaints six
shaft ventilators have been erected at various
points, and greater attention during the hot
weather was given to the flushing and disinfecting
of the sewers, as suggested in my last annual
report.
HOUSE DRAINS.
Many of the blockages we find in the private
drains, to which I have referred in former years
could in my opinion, be obviated in a great measure
by the appointment of an official whose duty it
should be to cleanse all gullies and traps connected
with every house in the district, say once a quarter,
as also by the framing of some regulation for the
better flushing of the W.C. apparatus in houses.
SEWAGE DISPOSAL WORKS.
The disposal of the pressed sludge has again
during the year been a difficulty, so much so
that your Committee took into consideration the
advisability of adopting some progress of enriching .
such residual, in order to enable the same to be
disposed of for manurial purposes. The Committee
inspected the works at Kingston, where the A.B.C.
process is in vogue, but did not appear to find any
solution to their difficulty in the scheme in operation
in that town.
Perhaps when the question of the extension of
the Works is under consideration, the bacteriological
treatment of sewage as now in use at Hampton
may be found of one of the means of solving this
problem, in any case, it is certain that considerable
additions will require to be made to the works at
no distant date.